To be excited by the Royal Birth

[RazzleDazzleEm]

I just love the pomp and ceremony of it, and the added extra that the commoner Middleton s have by fluke such a starring role.

Its so silly but also something lovely happening in the world when so much misery comes out of the news every single day.

I wouldn't be so excited if it was another royal but the fact Kate is a commoner...I don't know...I just love this angle! Also I feel so happy for William who had a decimated family that now he will be able to make his own family.

[RazzleDazzleEm]

Twinkle Even my friends who have very sadly miscarried and indeed lost babies, still get excited about a pregnancy no matter how worrying and high risk, its toned down but you cannot help but be hopeful and excited. The closer you get to your delivery date the more excited you become.

As Eliza says the monitoring and high level support Kate and the baby will be receiving is the best in the world, its highly un likely that there will be any problems, or lets put it another way, all the random things to do with monitoring and care, will be taken care of.

Then things go wrong when the baby is born, when do you get excited? When the baby is a 90 year old adult and is about to pass on?

[twinklestar2]

Razzle - no children as yet :) I guess I've been reading the Daily Mail too much! Every time we get told a new detail about the baby, they run 4 stories on that one detail! My fault for reading mail online hey!!

[chocolatesolveseverything]

I am excited about the upcoming birth, but mostly because it's due only a couple of weeks before my own PFB I believe :-)

[Twattybollocks]

I am excited for them like I'm excited for any parents expecting their baby, but at the same time im hoping and praying the baby arrives safe and well. Obviously she will have the very best of care, but childbirth is a risky business.

[curlew]

George or Victoria. You heard it here first.

[sarahtigh]

there is not nil risk despite having best care as despite this Gordon brown's eldest child died soon after birth

[MummyMastodon]

Ugh, I just keep thinking about that horrible business with the nurse and the suicide whenever the pregnancy is mentioned. I hope expectant parents can put it behind them.

[Eliza22]

Twinkle I hear what you're saying but, it's enormously unlikely that this baby will not survive.

Kate will have received the very best in pre-pregnancy care, obs & gynae monitoring etc and won't be working up to the week before the birth. Kate will give birth in a very different environment to most mothers today. there will be nil risk to her or her baby. I don't begrudge her this. I worked shifts throughout my pregnancy, kept going to 7 days before my due date, so I'd accrue maximum maternity leave for afterward. I never saw the same midwife more than twice for antenatal checks. Never saw a doctor beyond the absolute bog standard necessity. Dh wasnt summoned as they kept telling me i was no where near ready and had hours ahead of me (first baby). Ninety minutes before ds arrived I was told by the midwife to go in the shower. Then all hell broke loose... I asked about my epidural or SOME pain relief and was told by a very panicky midwife, it was tool late for all that. DH arrived 45 mins before DH arrived.

Later, the midwife came to see me 3 times and the patient services manager visited me, just to smooth things over, I think.

I wouldn't wish my experience on kate but FFS, all this bloody fuss?

[RazzleDazzleEm]

Ron or Dot - Carols folks names.


Dot Windsor

Ron Wales

[RazzleDazzleEm]

People always talk about babies on the way, do you have DC Twinkle?

If so, did none of you nor your kin talk about the baby?

[RazzleDazzleEm]

UMMM not always postive, think Fergie and Countess of Wessex being caught by media stings, and not so favourable of Andy.....


Not Richard.....noooooooooo

[twinklestar2]

Essex - the baby will be third in line to the throne after Charles and Wills.

I think it's pretty weird that everyone's talking about a baby that hasn't even been born yet. What if something happens to him or her when their born and they don't make it? It's like tempting fate.

[timidviper]

I really can't be arsed. The royals are so far out of the sort of world most of us live in I struggle to see a relevance to them and the Middletons may be commoners by their standards but they would be regarded as posh and monied by most people if we met them. This child will be born into a life of real privilege and subsidised by us as well.

I agree times have changed for the royals over the last 50 years but they haven't changed enough for me. I like the Queen and Prince Philip but fail to see the point of the rest of them.

[AudrinaAdare]

Richard. He has been in the news recently and has a nice, safe short-form

Jeremy would be wonderful.

[RazzleDazzleEm]

I wonder what the name would be for a boy....


Harry, Edward, Andrew, Charles William, all the obvious ones surely taken?

Jeremy?

[RazzleDazzleEm]

I don't really remembers Will's birth but I do remember the photo call in Oz.....

[Essexgirlupnorth]

YANBU I am excited as will be 4th in line whether it is a girl or boy and biggest royal birth I can remember. Was a baby when Willliam was born.

[AudrinaAdare]

Okay, I thought Charles Spencer was shagable once too.

This diversion reminds me of a Two Fat Ladies episode. They got chatting about the history of a recipe and mentioned the Duke of Wellington on whom one of them had a crush when they were a schoolgel.

"Oh really, y'see, I never fancied the Duke of Wellington. Squitty little chap..."

It was pure Jilly Cooper.

[RazzleDazzleEm]

Kates life - not sure...however I saw William once in a group situ, with his friends, they were typical oafish types....he was very un assuming, quiet....funny...I thought he was very nice.

[Blu]

Will we get a public holiday?

[Mixxy]

YANBU. I hate the concept of royality but love the Brittish royal family, probably just because of familiarity. And I'm Irish... The baby will be a beauty and I couldn't be more delighted for them.

[RazzleDazzleEm]

Maison bang bang you couldn't write it could you.
Unbelievable.

A long time ago, I also fancied Charles Spencer.



not now though.

[TSSDNCOP]

She might have sat at Baby Group and joked about it with her friends, but realistically to have engineered Kate's entrance to St Andrews, being friends with people and becoming room mates, then actually falling in love is beyond the limitations even of Xenia surely

Besides, is Kate's life what you'd want for your DD? All the RF privilege and extravagance in return for constant threat from terrorism, constant criticism in print and social media, no choice in the life path your DC will take. I'd baulk.